Catalogue Number
NBS I/D 969
Object Name
banner
Title
Original Banner - TEA OPERATIVES AND GENERAL LABOURERS ASSOCIATION - A Registered Protective Union for General Labourers. ALL GENERAL AND DOCK LABOURERS JOIN AT ONCE and Defend the Rights of Manhood in a Practical and Direct Manner. CONTRIBUTIONS 2D...
Place
London & England & UK
Events
Great Dock Strike
Date
circa 1889
Creator(s)NBS National Museum of Labour HistoryNBS T&GWU
Description
This banner was used througout the Great Dock Strike of 1889. Ben Tillett, the leader of the dockers, wrote of "our old dockers' banner, a linen sheet on which was thickly painted in black the name of our organisation".
Later, the banner was sewn onto a silk banner bearing, on the reverse side, a portrait of Tillett with an inscscription commemorating the strike.
Materials: Paint on linen.
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